historical fiction

noun

the genre of literature, film, etc., comprising narratives that take place in the past and are characterized chiefly by an imaginative reconstruction of historical events and personages.
works of this genre, as novels and plays.

First recorded in 1585–95

Follett is out this fall with his final installment of an historical fiction trilogy that races through the 20th century.

When Waters herself is writing historical fiction, how immersed is she in the period?

“There was so much lesbian historical fiction around,” she recalls.

He talks to Allen Barra about the Jewish mob, historical fiction, and how he grades Obama.

Paradise Alley won the 2003 James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction and the American Book Award.

Certainly The Cheats establishes her in my mind as our first writer of historical fiction.

Historical fiction has gone hand in hand with a revived interest in historical and archæological research.

From the Crusades to the Palisades they have enriched the arts of history and fiction and the trade of historical fiction.

The world is filled with historical fiction; it is the cant and the sham of the hour.

At any public library he can find a catalogue of historical fiction arranged according to centuries.

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